Discrimination!

[Bootking]

I was in Portchester, NY on Sunday and stopped into a Joyce Leslie clothing store. I picked up a couple of pieces and then, unlike what I normally do, went to the fitting room to try them on.

The woman said, "You can't come in here!" I said that I wanted to try these on and she then said, "No you can't try anything on!"

So, I put the items back and left!

[Dr. Shoe]

Some stores do have a serious policy of prohibiting men from the changing rooms... This is because of perverts, I'm not saying you are one, but they do not want a lawsuit from a disgruntled female customer. What I do is try on at home and return it if it doesn't fit.

[radiodave]

Unless they actually have a men's section with separate fitting rooms, I think you're out of luck, especially if it's a women's clothing store. So no, I wouldn't call it discrimination.

[Bootking]

But just do put a different spin on it, there are stores with "unisex" fitting rooms, one attendant, that's it. Target is one of those stores.

[ShockQueen]

Most stores allow men to try on stuff, but some just don't for whatever reason. When I was in my 20's, I used to go to Jean Nicole and Brooks to try on stuff, as well as Fitting Image back in the 90's - none of them had a problem with me, but I guess it's just up to the individual stores as to what their "policies" are - no matter if it drives customers away or not.

[Bootking]

That's why they lost a customer! And I had five articles to try.

[HappyFeat]

I do try clothes on in the store. Lane Bryant has been very good at allowing me to do it, though the store that I frequent has a new manager and since she has been there I haven't had chance to ask. The outlets I go to though usually will only let me in the dressing areas if they aren't busy. Since I do get good service most of the time, I respect their decision if they are reluctant to let me in. I think it has more to do with other customers complaining than store policy. But based upon the story you relayed, I wouldn't go back to that store either.

[Dr. Shoe]

A CD friend of mine would go to the same store time after time and was on first name terms with staff and everything. Then one day she was approached by a very sheepish manageress and told that they'd had a man come from head office to tell her that CDs or men were now forbidden from using the fitting rooms on the grounds that there had been a number (!) of complaints over the course of the previous few months. How this would equate to post-op TSs with a Gender Recognition Certificate I don't know.